HamilTEN Festival

The HamilTEN Festival is a festival of 10 minute plays by Hamilton area playwrights.

After much consideration, The HamilTEN Festival has
decided to take a one year hiatus in 2017. After an extremely successful five year run, Artistic Director Darren Stewart-Jones is taking a
leave of absence to concentrate on other projects.

2016 was the biggest and most successful HamilTEN Festival to date. The festival saw sixteen groups take to the stage to present their
10 minute plays at our new home, The Staircase Theatre. We enjoyed our
biggest audience turnout yet and were thrilled with the response from
Hamilton's theatre-going public.

The HamilTEN Festival
would like to extend a huge thank-you to our playwrights, directors and
performers as well as our audience members for a fantastic five year run.
We hope to see you back at The Staircase Theatre in 2018.

The HamilTEN Festival is an annual festival of 10 minute plays in Hamilton, Ontario. 2016 was our 5th anniversary! We ran April 15, 16 and 17 at our new venue - The Staircase Theatre in Hamilton at 27 Dundurn Street North.

For the first time ever, we had 3 separate blocks of 10 minute plays - Our GREEN, RED and BLUE shows. A total of 16 ten minute plays were performed at the 2016 festival.

The HamilTEN Festival is a festival of 10 minute plays by playwrights from Hamilton, Ontario and surrounding areas. With more script submissions than we've ever had previously, HamilTEN 2015 was our biggest festival to date. The 2015 festival was comprised of ten 10 minute plays.

Our line-up for 2015, in no particular order, was as follows:

The Bridge Written by Jessica
Anderson Directed by Ryan Sero

Conversations with a Capital “A” Written by Robin Sadavoy Directed by Nastazja Palonka

HamilTEN

Contact us at hamiltenfestival@gmail.com

Darren Stewart-Jones , Artistic Director

Darren is a theatre producer, director and a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. He has produced and directed plays at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, Hamilton Fringe, Toronto Fringe and at the United Solo Festival in New York City, winning Best International Show. He is the proud founder of The HamilTEN Festival.